Creating rounded corners in photoshop
Here’s one for the newbies.. How to create rounded corners, hey we all started somewhere.
New photoshop users are stumped by this, there’s no way to create rounded shapes, where’s the rounded corners tool? Well, there is none, this is photoshop not Corel Draw.
Open up the channels palette (Windows/Channels)
Create a new Alpha channel (Click page icon at the bottom of the palette)
Now draw any shaped selection you want to have rounded corners, start with a square using the marquee tool (Hit M, draw a box)
Fill the selection with white since the new alpha channel is black, don’t worry about the color for now. Hit control+d to drop the selection.
Now go to filters/Blur/Gausian blur and hit your shape with a good amount of blur. Hit Control+M to bring up the curves dialog box. See those little triangles down there in the bottom of the grid? Drag them towards the middle until the corners are rounded like you want them. The more you pull towards the middle the harder the edges will be. OK out of the curves dialog box when done.
Now hold down control and click on the alpha channel, this will load it as a selection. Go back to the layers palette (Windows/Layers) and create a new layer. The selection is still active so now you can just fill it with whatever color you like.
That’s all there is to creating rounded corners in photoshop.
